‘What happened here, Danmorran?’
‘We were ordered to patrol the ground between here and Karpella, to cover the retreat and hot-foot it back when we spotted the Dazscorian’s approaching,’ he began, his voice faint and faraway, his eyes unfocused as he spoke. ‘We found their column and began heading back to the formation to report how close they were when we spotted some peasant folk walking near the road, bold as you like. We should have smelt something was off in the air, but we’d been sat on our arses outside of that city for so long, we were all ready to blow off some steam. Commander gave the order, and we set off to ride them down, get a bit of sport out of it, he said. The whole thing didn’t sit right with me, but orders is orders, so I went with it, but held back, let the others do
